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CAPC CEO Brynn Bowman: Palliative Services Are a Fundamental Shift in Health Care

Hospice News

Palliative care services including skilled conversations with patients and families to understand their goals of care, managing pain and other symptoms, support for family caregivers, care coordination, and addressing patients’ social, psychological, and spiritual sources of suffering. While the large majority of U.S.

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Caring for Medically Complex Children Takes a Village

Nurse.com

These models refer to the nurse charged with care coordination in different ways, including as a nurse navigator, nurse case manager, health coaches, or other titles. Nurses’ Role With Medically Complex Children. Another nurse and I were the daytime care coordinators,” Whitfield said.

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Making a Case for Nurse Case Management 

Minority Nurse

Gillingham states, “Nurse case management is a specialty that ensures patients receive the quality care and services they need in a cost-effective manner. Case managers act as patient advocates, problem-solvers, and care coordinators across the healthcare continuum.”

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